2017-03-22

Dear American Express: Don’t punish an honest man for your mistakes



I’ve been an American Express cardholder for longer than I care to say. Let’s just say it’s been close to 40 years, and American Express has always been the first card I use. No more. Hello, MasterCard and Visa! Here’s the short version. I bought a suit for my son at an off-retail store. For the next few months, the […]

Dump the myth that Obamacare froze out those who opposed it



It’s true. The Affordable Care Act was passed without a single Republican vote. Republicans repeatedly cite this fact as Obamacare’s original sin, a fatal flaw that justifies their efforts to dismantle the ACA. But let’s set that record straight. Obamacare was a bipartisan plan. It just didn’t get a bipartisan vote. Despite rumors to the contrary, the reforms weren’t some […]

On charter schools and miner pensions



I want to res-pond to recent good articles in your paper. As the son-in-law of a 92-yearold widow who has received a United Mine Worker’s pension and medical card as well as Black Lung Social Security benefits, I applaud our new State Representative Angie Hatton for leading the successful fight for Kentucky House Resolution 136, urging Congress to adopt quickly […]

Political Cartoon



The Way We Were



Clips from available Mountain Eagle pages since our founding in 1907 Thursday, March 24, 1927 The Jenkins High School Debate Team defeated Hazard Friday night to qualify for the state meet in Lexington. . Prohibition Officer Clark Day and Letcher County Sheriff Morgan T. Reynolds say raids on illegal liquor operations have “been disastrous to moonshine” makers. The two report […]

McRoberts man was one of three charged in brutal slaying that Letcher doctor, police officers helped solve

Details of 1947 slaying came as a shock to many

This week 70 years ago, in what The Mountain Eagle termed “one of the worst crimes committed in this section in the last decade,” 21-year-old Jasper Nease of McRoberts and two other soldiers who escaped with him from the stockade at Fort Knox, were charged with murder after the partially bound body of former paratrooper Vernon Hodge of Louisville was […]

Nows Heres a Tip



• Hang brooms and mops to preserve their useful life. The bristles of a tightly packed broom are better at sweeping than loose bristles. • Clean the stainless steel surface of your kitchen appliances with Pledge or similar furniture polish. Fingerprints are banished, and just watch them shine! • “For those of us who use a lot of hairspray when […]

Moments and Memories of Whitesburg High School



1950 Whitesburg schools open Aug. 29 this year The Whitesburg grade and high school will open Monday at 8 a.m. on Aug. 29. Only freshmen are to be enrolled in the high school on Monday. The sophomores, juniors and seniors will enroll on Tuesday. Regular high school classes for all high school students will begin Wednesday. Buses will start their […]

Bible trivia



1. Is the book of Philemon in the Old or New Testament or neither? 2. Whose first verse is, “The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God”? Matthew, Mark, Luke, John 3. Which “Mount” provided a contest scene between Elijah and the prophets of Baal? Calvary, Sinai, Bethel, Carmel 4. From Luke 6.1, who, with companions, […]

Jon Murphy dies at 74



Jon D. Murphy, 74, died Thursday, March 16, at the Indiana Veterans Home in West Lafayette, Ind., where he had lived since 2007. Born in Cincinnati to the late Troy and Loreva Long Murphy, he was a grandson of the late John and Susan Long, formerly of Whitesburg, and William and Clara Murphy, formerly of Kings Mountain. Mr. Murphy was […]